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Which are utterly meaningless with the specification developed by said corporations.

And really, the only thing going for WebAssembly is being the PNaCL that those corporations were willing to agree on.

It's not the best possible scenario but "utterly meaningless" is hyperbole.

Certainly it's better not to have every aspect of a language be centralized. It's already near impossible to distribute Javascript, or even software in many languages, without going through NPM. WebAssembly, thankfully, isn't there yet.

It surely is meaningless, because whatever your favourite WebAssembly implementation is capable of, ultimately it only matters if it is spec compliant.

A spec, which is under control of those organisations.

What organisations should control a standard if not those that develop implementations?

The point is that WebAssembly isn't something independent of JavaScript masters control as the OP is portraying.

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